Internet
Some apps highlight when a person is online—and then share that information with their followers. When a user logs in to a website or app that uses online status indicators, a little green (or orange or blue) dot pops up ...
Apr 13, 2020
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Internet
Apartment seekers in big cities often use the presence of restaurants to determine if a neighborhood would be a good place to live. It turns out there is a lot to this rule of thumb: MIT urban studies scholars have now found ...
Jul 15, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Airport operations are affected by the unpredictable nature of flight times, departure delays, weather conditions, and other factors.
Feb 27, 2024
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Computer Sciences
In June 2022, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines by claiming the company's LaMDA chatbot had achieved sentience. The software had the conversational ability of a precocious seven-year-old, Lemoine said, and we should ...
Sep 12, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
A research team consisting of scientists from St Petersburg University, St Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and some other organizations have created a database of eye movement strategies ...
Sep 4, 2023
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Computer Sciences
An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has created a mathematical model which makes it possible to explain, according to different sociopolitical variables, certain advanced ...
Oct 27, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
A new algorithm proposed by a University of Texas at Dallas researcher and his colleagues could help dating app users find the perfect mate.
Jun 9, 2022
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Telecom
China launched the SDGSAT-1 science satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China on November 5, 2021. The satellite was launched aboard the Long March-6 (CZ-6) carrier rocket and entered ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Engineering
Massive heavy-lift crane vessels, capable of hauling thousands of tons, navigate the rough waves and strong winds offshore to construct wind turbines and oil fields in the ocean. An international team of researchers has developed ...
Jun 18, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new nanometric structure that can cover the surface of some silicon solar panels and improve their performance by up to 40%. This design could be ...
Feb 8, 2021
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